Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:50:41 11/21/99
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On November 21, 1999 at 16:29:03, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >On November 21, 1999 at 11:05:39, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On November 21, 1999 at 07:41:54, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >> >>>Could someone please explain to me how to make the book work with the crazy >>>bishop.I am running windows 98 with winboard on a celeron 466. >>>My shortcut line to winboard is >>>"c:\program files\winboard\winboard.exe" -cp -fcp "tcb tcbxinit.cui" >>>In my tcbxinit.cui file I have >>>book >>>readpgn c:\program files\winboard\tcbbook.pgn >>>I have tried every possible configuration that is known to mankind :-) but >>>sofar the book will not work. >>>Thanks in anticipation. >>>Yours sincerely >>>Ray MacFadyen >> >>I don't run Winboard engines from shortcuts, it's all edited into winboard.ini, >>the two lines related to TCB are: >> >>\"TCB tcbxinit.cui\" /fd=c:\\TCB >> >>\"TCB tcbxinit.cui\" /sd=c:\\TCB >> >>those are in the 1st & 2nd engine areas, it sounds to me like you are trying to >>do too much and just aggrivating yourself, the book should just work if you edit >>the winboard.ini file. Good luck. >> >>Pete >Thanks Pete,I will try that >Ray Ray, I just checked and my tcbxinit.cui file is different than yours is, I have not made any changes to mine at all, it's just the way it came with the download, so I don't know how that will effect you, the line in mine related to the book goes: pgnbook <book.pgn As much as I like TCB's style of playing Chess, I have not spent enough time with it to know the program real well, I need to sit down with it and make it work with tablebases too, that shouldn't be too hard (I hope) Pete
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